Liquid-measure.



S. B. BLIZARD. LIQUID MEASURE.

APPLIOATION FILED my a, 1907.

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S. E. BLIZARD.

LIQUID MEASURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1907.

Patented June 1,1909.

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SAMUEL EARL BLIZARD, OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.

LIQUID-MEASURE Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 6, 1907.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Serial N0. 372,251.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL EARL BLIZ- ARD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Franklin, in the county of Johnson and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLiquid-Measures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in liquid measures. Its objects areto provide for readily ascertaining the price of the measured liquid orcontents of the vessel or measure especially from readings upon thelatter; and to carry out that end in a simple, expeditious andconvenient manner.

Said invention consists of certain features or instrumentalitiessubstantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointedout by the claim.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of myinvention Flgure 1 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the invention, producedalongside of the column glass or tube.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a suitable vessel 1 preferablycylindric in its general outline, having a suitable spout 2 and handle3, for liquid-measuring purposes. Said vessel or measure has formedlaterally therein a longitudinal or vertical recess 4 opening outwardand extending from the very top of the vessel clear to the bottomthereof suitably for receiving, and within which is arranged andsuitably secured a transparent or glass column or tube 5, this planbeing adopted when the vessel is of metal or other opaque material,since the vessel itself may be of glass, or transparent, in that event,however, said tube being omitted and equivalent means therefor beingprovided, as will hereinafter be explained. Said tube or column has itslower end slightly curved laterally as at 6 and opening into the vesselor measure at its bottom to allow the contents thereof to enter andascend said tube in column form for disclosing the height of saidcontents in the measure or vessel as will be readily appreciated. Usingin the present instance, said transparent or glass tube 5 as a dividingline, I suitably mark or scribe upon the vessel or measure 1, atopposite sides of said line, certain indicia, as longitudinal columns 7,containing computations based upon certain standards or units of value,as will be further noted later, also additional like columns 8 and 9flanking the aforesaid columns; and across these columns, horizontalspaced off lines 10, 11 are produced, at the extreme top edge of themeasuring capacity of the vessel 1.

The headlines 10, 11, which are opposite certain suggestive headings asindicated, contain between them data or numerals readable in connectionwith the computations or figures in the vertical cloumns 7, as forexample, the 7 third indicia space from and at the left of said tube,may be read with the 11 at the top between the headlineslO, which willprovide, by pouring into the vessel 1 an amount of liquid rising in thetube 5 to a line connecting the 7 to said tube, for measuring sevencents worth of the liquid at eleven cents per gallon. Taking as anotherexample, the 14 in the seventh column at the right of said tube 5, maybe read with the 18 at the top between the headlines 11, which willprovide, by pouring into the vessel 1, an amount of liquid rising in thetube 5 to a line connecting the 23 to said tube, for measuring fourteencents worth of the liquid at eighteen cents per gallon. It will beunderstood that the indicia or figures, as expressed by the computationsarranged in the two series of colums designated as 7 at the right andleft of the tube 5 have, of course, all been previously worked outaccording to mathematical rules, giving the rates of prices of anymeasured portion of the liquids for vending, including the same for anyfractional part of such measurement as indicated. Also it will be notedthat the graduations of the two series or tables of computations areclearly differentiated from each other to provide for effecting theminutest measurements as will be readily understood. It is further notedthat the vessel or measure 1 has a fixed predetermined depth, say eightinches and that the spout 2 which is suitably fixed or soldered to saidvessel, has its bottom forward edge practically alined with the very topedge of said vessel or measure. Said spout has, however, a lateralextension or elongation 12 curving around outwardly from and just inrear of the tube 5, where it joins the can or vessel 1,

said extension standing above the top edge of said tube, to provide forthe reception and retention of any surplus liquid which may result fromthe over-pouring of said liquid especially as in filling the can orvessel to its maximum measuring capacity, the liquid overflowing saidtube as it would also the can or vessel, and thus prevent the spillingor overflowing of the liquid exteriorly of the can or vessel, as wouldotherwise result, as is apparent. The remaining upper edge portion ofthe vessel or measure 1 it will be observed extends laterally andrearward from its upper forward edge slightly above just the upper limitor outline of its measuring capacity as indicated by dotted lines at 13,which provides for the attachment of the corresponding portions of saidspout to said vessel or measure above said limiting point or out line,thus guarding against the incidental spilling or overflowing of thecontents of the measure or vessel when the latter shall be filled to itscomplete measuring capacity.

I claim A measuring vessel, having an indicating tube with its lower endopenin thereinto, and having marked thereon trliles of computationssuggestive of the amount of the contents of said vessel and the sellingprice of such contents, said vessel having a spout formed with anextension or elongation curving around and just rearwardly of the upperend of said indicating tube and standing outwardly therefrom andconnecting with said vessel just beyond said tube as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL EARL BLIZARD.

Witnesses:

EDWIN IIOUGHAM, LUTHER Snon'r.

